Gimme a Little Kiss ~ Alpha/Dictionary Challenge

The Craft Barn is running an alpha/dictionary challenge where they give us a new letter each fortnight and we chose a word in our dictionary to illustrate beginning with that letter. I was getting concerned that I would run out of time to play this fortnight (it's so much fun!) but I squeezed out a little pocket today. The letter this time is K and the word I chose is Kiss.

I decided to feature this Mo Manning image called Kisses...mainly because she makes me smile. I decided to colour her first and work out the background second. She's coloured with Prismacolor pencils and then fussy cut. I decided to go very girly on this one because Kisses asked me to.

The pages were prepped in the usual way: gesso on the pages I'm using and DecouPage to glue those pages to the ones before and after for strength. I scribbled three different pink Neocolor II crayons and one yellow one over the dictionary pages and spread the colour with a waterbrush. Picked Raspberry Distress ink was applied with an applicator tool over a flower stencil and a heart stencil from my stash. The hearts were then shaded with Prismacolor pencil and lined with a white paint pen and a black Micron. A border was stamped using a Fiskars Love Bug stamp and coloured in with Prisma colors. "Mwah" was stamped numerous times using black Archival ink and Hero Arts letters.

Washi tape was glued to the left page to give Kisses a place to stand and then bits were scattered over the two pages to move the eye around. The white MFT die cut piece is actually the reverse side of a border I didn't use the other day. Again it was cut in half (ish) and adhered to each page for continuity.

The letter K is a sticker from my stash and the words were printed on my trusty DYMO labeller. Before Kisses was adhered to the page a small doily was placed behind her for greater contrast and a little more texture. An internet image of a candy heart was printed and then altered with Picked Raspberry ink and a doodle pen before being popped up on foam tape.

To finish up, white gesso was pounced through punchinella using a scruffy old brush. Watery gesso was used to make rings with a lid to something or other. White lines were made with the same watered down gesso and an old gift card. Doodling was completed with a Pilot pen and a Micron and additional stamping was done with a checkerboard stamp. A little more gesso was brushed here and there onto the pages with my finger.

That's it for Kisses and me today. We appreciate your visit and always love reading your comments. I love that you are coming along on this creative journey with me. I'm off now to link up with The Craft Barn Alpha/Dictionary challenge and to finally have a look-see at what the others have created this time. The suspense has been torture :)

Life is good; so is art.
Bonnie